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No. 663,888. Patented-Dec. [8, I900.

J. C. HAMER.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 663,888, dated December 18, 1900. A li ati n filed November 7, 1899. Serial No. 736,123. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN CHARLES HAMER, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Radcliffe, in the county of Lancaster, England, (whose post-office address is Withins House, Radcliffe,) have invented new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Dyeing, Scouring, Bleaching, and otherwise Treating Yarn in Oop or other Similar Compact Form, (for which I have made application for patents in Great Britain, No.

8,440, dated April 22, 1899; in France, dated October 21, 1899; in Belgium, dated October 21, 1899; in Italy, dated October 21, 1899, and in Sweden, dated October 21, 1899,) of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in apparatus for dyeing, mordanting, scouring, washing, bleaching, steaming, drying, and otherwise treating yarn in cop or other similar compact forn1,which improvements render such apparatus simpler in construction and manipulation and entirely obviate the use of a perforated spindle without danger of the cops or the like losing their shape and enable the said operations being performed more expeditiously than heretofore has been the case.

I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, (two sheets,) in which- Figure 1 is a front view, Fig. 2 a plan, Fig. 3 a vertical section, Fig. 4 a sectional plan, and Figs. 5 and 6 perspective views, of a detail of my improved apparatus.

Similar characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In carrying out my invention I employ a cage a, (see Figs. 2 and 3,) adapted to rotate very rapidly inside a casing b, which I may furnish with a cover 0, an annular space d being provided between and a space e below the said cage and casing, in which latter I employ a steam-coil f. The wall'of the cage a only is perforated, while its bottom 9 is solid and riveted to a hollow boss h, by means of which the cage is secured to its shaft '6, mounted in the foot-step it, formed on the bottom land in the bearing m on the cover 0 of the casing. The boss h is surrounded by a hollow cone 72, carrying at its upper end a dish 0, adapted to catch the oil dropping from the bearing m. The shaft 2' is rotated from each other, or with other suitable means adapted to form compartments and receive perforated receptacles to, in which the cops '01' the like to be treated are placed. These receptacles are each formed with a lid 0),,

which can be readily removed for the purpose of being emptied of and refilled with cops or the like. (See Figs. 5 and 6, the former showing the receptacles with lid removed and the latter with lid secured thereto by skewers w.) The cops or the like are packed into the said receptacle in a vertical position,

as shown in Fig. 5, or in a horizontal position, so that the fluid will penetrate from the sides and not from the ends thereof. The cover a I form with a manhole m, adapted to be closed, through which the said perforated receptacles can be placed into and taken out of the cage (1 when using the cover. Inside the said cage I employ a pipe y, (or pipes,) the side of which facing the said receptacles is perforated or slotted. The bottom end of this pipe is closed and its upper end connected with a supply-tank l and also with a circulating-pump 2 through pipes 2 and 3, respectively, the said pump also communicating with the space c below the cage or through pipes 4: and 5.

The Working of the apparatus without the cover 0 is as follows: After the cage (0 has been charged with receptacles filled with cops or the like the fluid is allowed to pass from the supply-tank 1 into .the perforated or slotted pipe y. The engine is then started, the cage thereby set in rotation and the circulating-pumpin operation. Through the action of the latter the fluid is then forced through the perforated or slotted pipe 'y against the cop-receptacles and through the passed through the receptacle and cops therein runs into the space 6 below the cage, from whence it is reused by the circulating-pump or can be returnedto the supply-tank. When using the cover a on the casing b, I also employ an air-pump 6 at the side of the casing, communicating, by means of the pipe 7, with the interior of the same for the purpose of creating a vacuum in the apparatus before setting the circulating-pump in operation, and thereby empty the cops of air, and thus facilitate their ultimate treatment. When the cops have been sufficiently treated with fluid, the circulating-pump z is stopped, while the rotation of the cage is continued for the purpose of whizzing or expelling from the cops in the said receptacles by centrifugal force the superfluous fluid, which then accumulates in the space 6 below the cage a.

In order to be able to empty the space e in the casing b of fluid While the apparatus is at rest, I furnish the pipe 5 with a tap positioned over a tank 8, formed at the side of V the casing b at a lower level than its bottom,

which, however, may also be used as a sup- What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In an apparatus for treating yarn in cop or similar compact form, a cage with means for rotating the same, a series of V-shaped partitions secured to the wall of said cage form inga series of compartments with parallel side walls, a spray-pipe depending Within said cage and a series of rectangular perforated cages having open front sides closely fitting said compartments, the front faces of the cages forming a continuous wall, sub= stantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN CHARLES HAMER,

Witnesses:

ALFRED BossHARnT, STANLEY E. BRAMALL. 

